Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.Arthur Conan Doyle
Quotes to Explore
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
Carly Fiorina -
Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
Nancy Grace -
And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
Fay Godwin -
While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
Mahesh Babu -
With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
Zack Wamp
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
Vanessa Mae -
If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
Ice T -
I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.
Edgar Mitchell -
My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
Faye Wattleton -
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.
Karen Elson
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Liebende … wenn ihr einer dem andern euch an den Mund hebt und ansetzt –: Getränk an Getränk: o wie entgeht dann der Trinkende seltsam der Handlung.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.
Joanne Rowling -
There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.
Margaret Fuller -
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
Charles Spurgeon -
Man remains in the end what he started as in the beginning: a biosystem with a limited capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the consequence is future shock.
Alvin Toffler -
I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.
Bill Paxton
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History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.
Douglas Brinkley -
It was a total dream of mine to have my voice on an album with Stevie Nicks.
Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum -
First of all, in many Muslim countries women have incredible amounts of freedom, sometimes more than in some countries in Europe. So you cannot just make a generalized statement about women. Second, Islam is not the problem. It's tradition. It's culture. It's age-old mind-sets that need to be changed.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.
Damian Lewis -
Leading the SMU men's basketball program is an honor and a responsibility that I take very seriously.
Larry Brown -
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.
Arthur Conan Doyle